Matthew Pearl

Boston, 1868. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into chaos. Soon after, another mysterious catastrophe devastates the heart of the city. Is it sabotage by scientific means or Nature revolting against man’s attempt to control it?
 With their first graduation and the very survival of their groundbreaking college now in doubt, a band of the Institute’s best and brightest students secretly come together to save innocent lives and track down the truth. 
Studded with suspense and soaked in the rich historical atmosphere for which its author is renowned, The technologists (Random House, $26) by Matthew Pearl is a dazzling journey into a dangerous world not so very far from our own, as the America we know today begins to shimmer into being.

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“Pearl’s signature complex plotting, strewn with red herrings and populated with unlikely villains, leaves readers as shocked and intrigued as the Bostonians. . . . Pearl’s first three novels—The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The last Dickens—were all New York Times bestsellers. His latest, another literary-historical thriller, seems certain to join the elite club.” Booklist

“Fascinating, mesmerizing, and richly atmospheric, The technologists is the best yet from a true master of the historical thriller. I loved this novel."

Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Buried Secrets

Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and The last Dickens, and the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Matthew Pearl on tour for The Technologists.

Matthew Pearl’s first three novels, The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have over one million copies in print combined. Critics have likened Pearl to E. L. Doctorow, and described him as “at the very forefront of contemporary novelists” (Caleb Carr), “sparkling with erudition” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times), and “the shining star of literary fiction” (Dan Brown). In his new novel, The Technologists (On Sale February 21, 2012), the acclaimed author takes a departure from his past three novels which focused on literary history’s greatest mysteries and transports readers to nineteenth-century Boston, where a war exists between the past and present, tradition and technology. (GibsonsB)… (more)